Avant-Guide New York City

Avant-Guide New York City

Author: Dan Levine

Publisher: Empire Press

Published: 1998-10-19

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781891603013

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New York isn't for the faint-hearted and neither is the Avant-Guide series of travel books. Unlike other travel guides, which offer such unhelpful platitudes as "wear comfortable shoes", Avant-Guide New York City writes for today's modern, cosmopolitan traveler who doesn't want to be advised on footwear, especially in New York, where "comfortable shoes" won't get you into the latest club. With the tagline "Refuse to be a Tourist!" Avant-Guide New York City offers up-to-date and up-to-speed information highlighted by colorized photos, edgy graphics, vibrant features, thorough maps, and coverage of the current cultural scene so readers can dive head-first into what's hot in the city that never sleeps. With an inside scoop on film, music, art, and literature, Avant-Guide New York City will direct sophisticated travelers to venues and happenings they won't find in the tired old guidebooks their parents toted. Articles and interviews with over a dozen leading artists, filmmakers, musicians, chefs, fashion designers, and politicians introduce readers to the cultural lifeblood of New York from Greenwich Village and Broadway to Wall Street and Central Park. As stylish and colorful as New York itself, Avant-Guide New York City uses non-traditional typefaces, undulating text, extraordinary photographs, and hip computer-enhanced graphics to meet the vacation needs of the large population of travelers between the ages of 18 and 49. The semi-soft covers are extremely durable, feel good in the hand, and don't make their users stand out like the usual guidebook-lugging tourists. Written and edited by residents of New York City, this guide shows travelers the new, the interesting, and the best ofwhat the city has to offer.


A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe

Author: Zara Martirosova Torlone

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-04-17

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 111883271X

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A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English ]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of thirteen countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. The first English-language collection of research and scholarship on Greco-Roman heritage in Eastern and Central Europe Written and edited by an international group of seasoned and up-and-coming scholars with vast subject-matter experience and expertise Essays from leading scholars in the field provide broad insight into the reception of the classical world within specific cultural and geographical areas Discusses the reception of many aspects of Greco-Roman heritage, such as prose/philosophy, poetry, material culture Offers broad and significant insights into the complicated engagement many countries of Eastern and Central Europe have had and continue to have with Greco-Roman antiquity


Central European Avant-Gardes

Central European Avant-Gardes

Author: Timothy O. Benson

Publisher: Mit Press

Published: 2002-03

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13:

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This volume presents an interpretive overview of the complex webs of interaction among the artists and intellectuals of early 20th-century Central Europe.


Prague Palimpsest

Prague Palimpsest

Author: Alfred Thomas

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-10-15

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0226795411

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A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised and rewritten—from the medieval and Renaissance chroniclers who legitimized the city’s foundational origins to the modernists of the early twentieth century who established its reputation as the new capital of the avant-garde—Alfred Thomas argues that Prague has become a paradoxical site of inscription and effacement, of memory and forgetting, a utopian link to the prewar and pre-Holocaust European past and a dystopia of totalitarian amnesia. Considering a wide range of writers, including the city’s most famous son, Franz Kafka, Prague Palimpsest reassesses the work of poets and novelists such as Bohumil Hrabal, Milan Kundera, Gustav Meyrink, Jan Neruda, Vítĕzslav Nezval, and Rainer Maria Rilke and engages with other famous authors who “wrote” Prague, including Guillaume Apollinaire, Ingeborg Bachmann, Albert Camus, Paul Celan, and W. G. Sebald. The result is a comparative, interdisciplinary study that helps to explain why Prague—more than any other major European city—has haunted the cultural and political imagination of the West.


Dear All (III.)

Dear All (III.)

Author: Jaromír Synek

Publisher: Palacký University Olomouc

Published:

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13: 8024458659

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Monografie je třetím svazkem edice zabývající se korespondencí Bohuslava Martinů s jeho rodinou v Poličce. Tento svazek obsahuje 56 korespondenčních dokumentů z let 1934 a 1935. Jedná se o korespondenci jednostrannou, dochovaly se pouze dopisy B. Martinů adresované rodině. I přesto lze v těchto dokumentech nacházet unikátní autentická sdělení, v nichž sám Martinů komentuje svou životní i profesní cestu, aby své informace, záměry či postoje sděloval nejbližším rodinným příslušníkům, ale často jejich prostřednictvím i širšímu okruhu přátel v Poličce a v Československu. Dopisy jsou v české verzi předkládány v diplomatickém přepisu včetně jejich faksimile a jsou doplněny poznámkovým aparátem. Monografie je zpracována v česko-anglické podobě. The monograph is the third volume of Bohuslav Martinů's correspondence with his family in Polička. It comprises 56 items of correspondence from 1934 and 1935. Although one-sided, as only letters sent by the composer were preserved, the correspondence contains Martinů's unique and authentic remarks on both his personal and his professional life, in which he shared his news, intentions, and opinions both with his closest relatives and, through them, to a broader circle of friends in Polička and Czechoslovakia. The Czech version provides a true diplomatic transcription of Martinů's manuscript letters and includes facsimiles of the correspondence. Comprehensive annotations give historical context. The monograph includes a parallel English translation.


Between Point Zero and the Iron Curtain

Between Point Zero and the Iron Curtain

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9004711287

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This volume, edited by Éva Forgács, with contributions from art historians from across Europe and the Americas, analyzes the artistic initiatives of the short time span between the end of World War II and the onset of the Cold War. In this moment, a new internationalism was anticipated by retrieving pre-war modernism, as well as creating the new era's new artistic lingua franca. The chapters include in-depth case studies that analyze the complex, often interconnected, projects throughout the world—South America and Eastern and Western Europe—that were soon ended by the Cold War.


Cannibalizing the Canon

Cannibalizing the Canon

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-02-06

Total Pages: 655

ISBN-13: 9004526749

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This rich, in-depth exploration of Dada’s roots in East-Central Europe is a vital addition to existing research on Dada and the avant-garde. Through deeply researched case studies and employing novel theoretical approaches, the volume rewrites the history of Dada as a story of cultural and political hybridity, border-crossings, transitions, and transgressions, across political, class and gender lines. Dismantling prevailing notions of Dada as a “Western” movement, the contributors to this volume present East-Central Europe as the locus of Dada activity and techniques. The articles explore how artists from the region pre-figured Dada as well as actively “cannibalized”, that is, reabsorbed and further hybridized, a range of avant-garde techniques, thus challenging “Western” cultural hegemony.


Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia

Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia

Author: Krzysztof Fijalkowski

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1351547429

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Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia: On the Needles of Days sheds much-needed light on the location of the greatest concentration of Surrealist photography and examines the culture and tradition within which it has taken root and flourished. The volume explores a rich and important artistic output, very little of which has been seen outside of its land of origin. Based on extensive research at museums in Prague and Brno and many conversations with participants in and historians of the movement, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson and Ian Walker analyse how this photographic work has developed cohesively and rigorously, from the beginnings of Czech Surrealism in 1934, to the intriguing researches of the present-day Czech and Slovak Surrealist group by way of mysterious veiled responses to the repressive contexts with which they were faced from the 1950s to the 1980s. The main chapters, ordered chronologically, are intersected with shorter texts examining specific works. The reader will find in this volume images that present challenges to our understanding of how photographic work has been used within surrealism, pinpointing individual pictures whose dynamic charge may induce instants of compelling interrogation and disruption.


Collecting Asian Art

Collecting Asian Art

Author: Markéta Hánová

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2024-02-29

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 9462703787

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Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turns to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved and changed under changing cultural and political conditions from the pre-World War I to the post-World War II periods. With a primary focus on collections of East Asian, South Asian, and West Asian art in Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Kraków, Budapest, and Ljubljana, it outlines the transregional connections and networks that gradually developed. Collecting Asian Art locates Asian art across the twentieth-century in Central Europe via discourse and ideology, and discusses key collections and the way individual collectors built their networks. It thus explores transregional connections that developed through collecting activities and strategies in the prewar, interwar and postwar eras. Contributors also examine the personal connections between a group of Indologists from postwar Prague and modernist Indian artists from the early 1950s to the 1980s and also discuss the systematic archiving of East Asian art collections in Slovenia. A concluding conversation looks at colonisation and decolonisation from a broader perspective by approaching it through recent art historical discussions on the global dimensions of modernism. By defining the region through its external relationships and its entanglements with regions across Asia rather than as a self-contained unit, the contributions in this volume outline how these transregional connections and networks evolved and changed over time, thus highlighting their singularity in comparison to developments in Western Europe. Based on recent research, Collecting Asian Art reveals neglected sources while reinterpreting well-known ones.